Coexistence

Grapevine, April 2, 2026: The insensitivity of bureaucracy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

The scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Beersheba, southern Israel, June 24, 2025
 SHEIKH MOHAMMED Sharif Odeh and Rabbi David Metzger appear on a billboard near Haifa with a message that reads: 'Though we are different, all religions advance coexistence.'

Why compassion between Jews and Muslims must outlast war - opinion

JANE KRIVINE receives a Knesset award for the FKI project in 2022.

How tennis is bringing Jewish and Arab Israeli children together - opinion

MOTTY REIF, flanked by Sandra Ringler (left) and Batel Green.

Grapevine March 8, 2026: Strutting with new confidence


Don’t give up on peace, or on us - opinion

Achieving peace can fundamentally change the way Israel is seen by the world and the next generation of Jews.

 WOMEN WAGE PEACE and Women of the Sun march together on October 4, 2023. Even amid the war, we are building bridges: holding vigils, leading joint training programs, and walking together toward a future we are too often told is impossible, says the writer.

Hope on every desk: A living peace project in Jaffa - opinion

The goal is to raise at least £12,000 to equip all 13 classrooms with essential learning materials: textbooks, notebooks, whiteboards, and stationery.

An empty classroom

Motherhood as a metaphor: The role of women as facilitators - opinion

Life is extremely imperfect and challenging; the goal of the individual must be to overcome adversity and sorrow to achieve meaning for oneself and for others, whoever they may be.

 An illustrative image of a woman with a musical instrument.

Israeli faith in lasting peace with Palestinians at lowest in over a decade - poll

Israeli faith in lasting peace with Palestinians and the possibility of a two-state solution is at the lowest since 2013, a Pew poll shows.

Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall

Why USAID matters for Israel’s future and America’s moral leadership - opinion

USAID grantee Tsofen-Tashbik, an Arab-Jewish partnership organization, created opportunities around the shared language of innovation.

 ARABS AND JEWS take part in Inspire Her, an annual women’s event, last year.

How dialogue and olive oil can nurture tolerance and coexistence

Sindyanna of Galilee is a nonprofit organization that promotes cooperation between Jewish and Arab women.

 Nadia Giol at the Visitors Centre

The Nita Lowey funds aimed at Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding must be reformed - opinion

The Nita Lowey fund should have focused more of its efforts on finding and connecting Palestinian youth at risk of being indoctrinated to hate Jews.

 THEN-US HOUSE Appropriations Committee chair Nita Lowey speaks at a hearing in 2019. The funds named for her should be reformed to bring settler and Palestinian communities in Judea and Samaria together for peace, the writer argues.

Educational Bookshop and the cultural institutions of east Jerusalem

Notwithstanding the current toxic political climate, some arguably naïve and ever-hopeful Jerusalemites haven’t lost faith in the dream of coexistence.

 Ahmad Muna of the Educational Bookshop.

Key to coexistence: Why the Gaza uprising against Hamas could change everything - opinion

The internal correction for Gaza has the greatest potential for the coexistence we so desperately want and need.

 Palestinians protest to demand an end to war, chanting anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip March 26, 2025.

Pursuing peace after a massacre: A naive dream or a commendable attribute? - opinion

This attraction to peace is firmly rooted in Jewish tradition.

JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv after the UN voted on November 29, 1947, in favor of the Partition Plan, paving the way for the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. The state has centered the Land of Israel in Jewish life in a position it hasn’t played in two millennia.